Updates & Delays

This week I had a guest, so little got done. That said, I do have some new photos to share.

Here is the new "baker's counter" I put together from Container Store. Unfortunately the wood shelf does not sit quite level. Further investigation revealed that it's either a warper metal shelf underneath, or gremlins. I reseated it and it's better, but still a little wobbly when I apply weight. That's OK since it's mostly for storage.

Here is the kitchen in full glory - as it were. You can see the pot rack and all the appliances. As previously described, the fridge and stove are new. The fridge is an LG with bottom-freezer (awe-SOME) and the Stove is an Avanti 20" with a 10K BTU burner. The other burners vary. It's interesting to have a stove with different energy burners.

Anyway, we are still soliciting opinions on the orange.

The lonely corner. I have a few ideas. I still have a fantasy of putting an actual dining table - small, but still a table - here for guests, but my actual guest this week points out that eats up a lot of space. I do want a hutch, as I have since I was little - to me a hutch is the true heart of a home, in a spiritual since, as opposed to the practical heart that is the kitchen. Anyway, for now the $99 breakfast nook from BB&B will do. It acts as storage, and has a drop leaf that makes it a decent table for a company of two.

So here are the walls - again - as posted last week. I'm still thinking about where my wall art and photos will go. In the meantime, I do like stacking my nieces and nephews under the watchful eye of a small Navajo sand painting.

So, the desk. There's no good place in the apartment for the desk, and so it may move. The empty space, if the desk stays, will likely be filled with a framed something - photo, art, whatever.

Also, I'm thinking about the speakers. I may get ambitious and actually punch two holes in the wall to snake some speaker cable through. If I can run cables through the wall, rather than on the outside, I'd rather do that. Honestly, even though it's near fifteen years own, I have a ridiculously sophisticated speaker system for an apartment of this size.

Well, that's all that's fit to print this week. I do have some more shelves that that were on back order from West Elm - those may go over the desk, or in the bedroom.

Also, I got my Metropolis poster - the German Expressionist science fiction film, not Superman's birthplace. Still pricing out framing. It may ultimately be cheaper to send back and buy a framed copy.

Stay tuned.